Running a strong presidential campaign in 2008 that went
down to the wire sure wasn’t enough. And accepting a White House cabinet post
as a political concession gift from Barack Obama obviously was not enough.
That is why Hillary Clinton is running for President of the
United States … again.
Some see her as an ambitious woman striving to achieve a
dream. Others see her as stubborn, willful, and unaware when she has been
licked. And, still others see her as a manipulative …um, well, you know… with
an insatiable appetite for political power.
Then there are people like me who feel Hillary Clinton is a
political zealot who doesn’t know when to stop pushing because of some
psychological preoccupation she has with trying to prove to the world that she
is as good as any man at gaining power.
It is the reason why Hillary held closed-door meetings at the
White House over her health care reform plan she proposed as First Lady back in
the early nineties.
It is the reason why she moved to New York State after she
and Bill moved out of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue in January 2001. She knew that
she was unlikely to win any seat to national office from her home state of
Arkansas, so she established residency in the state of New York for the
expressed purpose of running for a U.S. Senate seat that happened to be
available.
And the people of New York bit hook, line and sinker. They
loved her, but her affection for them was superficial; it was tied up in their
votes. She only liked New Yorkers for what they could give her: A seat in
Congress at the U.S. Capitol.
With help from her allies in the Democratic National
Committee, she wasted little time establishing herself on important committees
and sub-committees as a junior senator.
No sooner had Hillary completed her first six-year senate
term and been re-elected to a second, then she was already planning a run for
President.
Like the eight years she spent as First Lady behind her
husband’s decisions in the Oval Office, Hillary used her senate seat as a springboard
for something bigger… and more powerful.
Turns out she wasn’t really interested in serving in the
U.S. Senate after all. She wasn’t that invested in the people of New York
State, either. As Machiavelli might have put in, they were a means to an end
for her.
Entering the Iowa Caucus in 2008, Hillary was considered the
democratic front-runner. There was no one to contest her party nomination, and
no one viably to stop her from her march to the White House.
But just as Hillary had thought her ship had finally come
in, a train called Obama was leaving the station and picking up steam. Fast.
Before she knew it, Hillary was the underdog to a man who
masterfully created political hysteria around him. Although she didn’t go down
without a fight, she did eventually concede her party’s nomination to Obama,
who, at the bequest of party leaders, offered Hillary a parting concession
gift: A cabinet post.
And so, the belle of Little Rock conceded and graciously
accepted the bribe of a cabinet position should Obama beat John McCain in the
general election.
Which, of course, he did. And Hillary assumed the office of
Secretary of State, head of the State Department, one of the most important and
potent cabinet posts in the White House. If Hillary sought national political
power, she now had it.
But serving nearly four years as a national figure head of
the United States government still wasn’t enough.
Hillary wants ultimate political power. She wants to be at
the very top; not merely near or next to it. In her mind, she still has
something to prove to herself. She thinks she has to become POTUS, or else she
is doomed a failure in life.
There is something deeply psychological about this woman’s
zeal for the White House and the office of POTUS. It is something I fear, and
it is chief reason enough for me not to vote for her.
I have a fundamental aversion to career politicians anyway;
especially those who manipulate their way up the political ladder to achieve
greater importance for themselves and more power over others.
Hillary is the personification of the type of leader that I
find distasteful. And her psychological problems surrounding this irrational,
unreasonable need to gain the White House on her own and for herself is
downright scary.
God help the United States if Hillary Clinton gets elected
POTUS. It will be like Napoleon Bonaparte becoming Consul of France. Hopefully,
we aren’t forced to experience another Waterloo. One was enough for the whole
world.
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